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The Social Impacts of Wetland Mitigation Policies in the United States

Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Nicholas Brozovi

Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Varkki George Pallathucheril

Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Concern over the threat to wetlands from urban development has increased with rising levels of suburbanization. This article provides an extensive overview of the literature on the history and structure of U.S. wetland conservation policy. The authors focus on regulations that permit wetland destruction in return for mitigation of wetland damage and highlight concerns that current wetland mitigation policies may lead to the redistribution of wetland benefits among specific population groups. Researchers and planners have yet to construct systems that enable them to answer a very basic question : Does wetland mitigation contribute to social disparity and inequity? The authors outline a data collection framework for use in determining if and how social disparities may occur during mitigation. They also discuss the use of spatial and temporal preference measures as a tool for addressing these considerations. Finally, they discuss how recent Supreme Court limitations on federal jurisdiction over wetlands may alter the roles and responsibilities of planners, arguing that these new roles may provide the opportunity for planners to fully incorporate social considerations into mitigation decisions.

Key Words: wetland mitigation • ecological systems • spatial discounting • environmental planning • storm water ordinance • land use change

This version was published on May 1, 2008

Journal of Planning Literature, Vol. 22, No. 4, 341-357 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0885412207314011


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